BERWICK, Sister Mary, RRC, of Oamaru;
GUBBINS, Sister Beatrice, of Auckland;
SMITH, Sister Christina, of Wellington;
 each of whom has been on service for three years in France and Britain, have returned to join Colonel Wylies orthopaedic unit. These sisters have undergone three months training in this work at the military hospital at Hammersmith, the leading orthopaedic hospital in the world. Major W S WALLIS of Timaru, who left with the Second NZ Stationary Hospital, has also returned to take up orthopaedic work.

Four chaplains have returned on a transport:
EVANS, Rev E, of Petone;
MINOGUE, Rev P J, Palmerston North;
PEAT, Rev H T, of Rotorua;
SEAMER, Rev A J, of Dunedin
The Rev Mr SEAMER went to the front early in the war as a private in the infantry. He was invalided home and went to the front again as a chaplain.

A young soldier returned from Palestine recently in the person of Trooper J H FORD, aged 19 years, has seen two years service abroad. He was wounded in Palestine and invalided home. He is the son of Robert Ford of Piopio, late of Hamilton.